Prof. Zewi serves as faculty member in the Department of Hebrew Language at the University of Haifa, and as Head of the Joseph & Racheline Barda Chair for the Study and Research of Jewish Heritage in Egypt (http://srjhechair.haifa.ac.il/index.php/he/).

Tamar Zewi's academic interests include Hebrew and Semitic linguistics and philology. Her current research projects include Saadya Gaon's translations of Scripture according to early manuscripts including Genizah fragments.

Stefan Reif (BA, PhD London; MA LittD Cambridge: Hon. PhD Haifa) is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Hebrew Studies and Fellow of St John's College in the University of Cambridge. He also holds senior research posts at the Universities of Haifa and Tel Aviv. He was the Founding Director of the Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library (1973-2006). He is the author of many books and articles and has lectured widely in Europe, Israel, Canada and the USA. His latest volumes are A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo (2000), Problems with Prayers (2006), Charles Taylor and the Genizah Collection (2009), Death in Jewish Life (2014), and Religious Identity Markers (2015). He is currently completing a volume describing and analysing medieval liturgical fragments from the Cairo Genizah. Together with F. W. de Klerk, former President of South Africa, and Chaim Topol, the famous actor, he was recently awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Haifa.

The Interdisciplinary Centre for the Broader Application of Genizah ResearchUniversity of Haifa I Mount Carmel Haifa 3498838 I Phone : 04-8249965 | Email:elev@univ.haifa.ac.il , mlavee@univ.haifa.ac.ilOur thanks to Cambridge University Library/Taylor Schechter Genizah Research Unit and the Haifa University Libraryfor allowing us to display the photos from their collections